Diminuendi
i) Etude ii) Prelude iii) Response
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Commissioned by Katherine Williams
Premiered in New Music Sunday at The House, Plymouth, April 2015 |
Programme Note:
This music's starting point is in the research of performer Dr Katherine Williams who commissioned the work. Specifically, her work on Duke Ellington’s Diminuendo in Blue and the paradox of recording improvisations [see here].
The music is structured in three movements, each of which plays with the idea of a ‘diminuendo’ - ‘to diminish’. Normally taken as a ‘loud to quiet’ indication, I have applied it as a ‘harsh to soft’ principal which structures individual phrases, passages as well as the work as a whole.
I am extremely grateful to Katherine who spent countless, complaint-free, hours workshopping myriad ideas in the studios at Bristol.
This music's starting point is in the research of performer Dr Katherine Williams who commissioned the work. Specifically, her work on Duke Ellington’s Diminuendo in Blue and the paradox of recording improvisations [see here].
The music is structured in three movements, each of which plays with the idea of a ‘diminuendo’ - ‘to diminish’. Normally taken as a ‘loud to quiet’ indication, I have applied it as a ‘harsh to soft’ principal which structures individual phrases, passages as well as the work as a whole.
I am extremely grateful to Katherine who spent countless, complaint-free, hours workshopping myriad ideas in the studios at Bristol.